Louis Kahn Architecture Quotations

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.